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| 27 | <a name="thread.build"></a>Build</h3></div></div></div> |
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| 28 | <div class="toc"><dl> |
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| 29 | <dt><span class="section"><a href="build.html#thread.build.building">Building the <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Threads</strong></span> Libraries</a></span></dt> |
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| 33 | How you build the <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Threads</strong></span> libraries, and how you build your own applications |
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| 34 | that use those libraries, are some of the most frequently asked questions. Build |
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| 35 | processes are difficult to deal with in a portable manner. That's one reason |
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| 36 | why <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Threads</strong></span> makes use of <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Build</strong></span>. |
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| 37 | In general you should refer to the documentation for <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Build</strong></span>. |
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| 38 | This document will only supply you with some simple usage examples for how to |
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| 39 | use <span class="emphasis"><em>bjam</em></span> to build and test <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Threads</strong></span>. In addition, this document |
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| 40 | will try to explain the build requirements so that users may create their own |
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| 41 | build processes (for instance, create an IDE specific project), both for building |
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| 42 | and testing <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Threads</strong></span>, as well as for building their own projects using |
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| 43 | <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Threads</strong></span>. |
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| 46 | <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"> |
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| 47 | <a name="thread.build.building"></a>Building the <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Threads</strong></span> Libraries</h4></div></div></div> |
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| 48 | <p> |
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| 49 | To build the <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Threads</strong></span> libraries using <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Build</strong></span>, simply change to the |
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| 50 | directory <span class="emphasis"><em>boost_root</em></span>/libs/thread/build and execute the command: |
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| 51 | </p> |
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| 52 | <pre class="programlisting">bjam -sTOOLS=<span class="emphasis"><em>toolset</em></span></pre> |
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| 53 | <p> |
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| 54 | This will create the debug and the release builds of the <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Threads</strong></span> library. |
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| 55 | </p> |
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| 56 | <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> |
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| 57 | <h3 class="title">Note</h3>Invoking the above command in <span class="emphasis"><em>boost_root</em></span> will build all of |
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| 58 | the Boost distribution, including <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Threads</strong></span>.</div> |
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| 59 | <p> |
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| 60 | The Jamfile supplied with <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Threads</strong></span> produces a dynamic link library named |
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| 61 | <span class="emphasis"><em>boost_thread{build-specific-tags}.{extension}</em></span>, where the build-specific |
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| 62 | tags indicate the toolset used to build the library, whether it's a debug or release |
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| 63 | build, what version of Boost was used, etc.; and the extension is the appropriate extension |
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| 64 | for a dynamic link library for the platform for which <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Threads</strong></span> is being built. |
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| 65 | For instance, a debug library built for Win32 with VC++ 7.1 using Boost 1.31 would |
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| 66 | be named <span class="emphasis"><em>boost_thread-vc71-mt-gd-1_31.dll</em></span>. |
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| 67 | </p> |
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| 68 | <p> |
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| 69 | The source files that are used to create the <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Threads</strong></span> library |
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| 70 | are all of the *.cpp files found in <span class="emphasis"><em>boost_root</em></span>/libs/thread/src. |
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| 71 | These need to be built with the compiler's and linker's multi-threading support enabled. |
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| 72 | If you want to create your own build solution you'll have to follow these same |
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| 73 | guidelines. One of the most frequently reported problems when trying to do this |
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| 74 | occurs from not enabling the compiler's and linker's support for multi-threading. |
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| 75 | </p> |
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| 77 | <div class="section" lang="en"> |
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| 78 | <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"> |
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| 79 | <a name="thread.build.testing"></a>Testing the <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Threads</strong></span> Libraries</h4></div></div></div> |
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| 80 | <p> |
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| 81 | To test the <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Threads</strong></span> libraries using <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Build</strong></span>, simply change to the |
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| 82 | directory <span class="emphasis"><em>boost_root</em></span>/libs/thread/test and execute the command: |
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| 83 | </p> |
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| 84 | <pre class="programlisting">bjam -sTOOLS=<span class="emphasis"><em>toolset</em></span> test</pre> |
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| 88 | <td align="left"><small><p>Last revised: July 17, 2004 at 04:33:59 GMT</p></small></td> |
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| 89 | <td align="right"><small>Copyright © 2001-2003 William E. Kempf</small></td> |
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